On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:42:01PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: > > > Well, if look on the code of man program, we will see that for every > directory (path) > in MANPATH it adds path/lang *before* this path. So, from > MANPATH=/usr/share/man, > we'll get MANPATH=/usr/share/man/ru:/usr/share/man, which means that if we do > not > have a translated manual page the default one will be shown. The patch I sent > you does the same, but for LANG=country_TERRITORY.ENCODING,VERSION, it adds > all of > them from the most specific to the least specific. So everything should > continue > to work. No?
Humm, nice patch, but ... it brakes japanese :-( Maybe you've missed my last 69k (now 69m) which had something similar: set the LANG to ja_JP.ujis and it will search .../man/ja_JP.ujis/manX, .../man/ja_JP/manX, .../man/ja/manX which is what we wanted, ... or not? What should be the correct behaviour? giving a locale like "ja" serch for all the pages in any man/ja*/manX place (and giving a locale like "ja_JP.ujis" should it find a manpage in man/ja/manX or default to english?). In theory this looks like the most reasonable. But people asked for the contrary (if I didn't misunderstood): giving "ja_JP.ujis" as LANG, display pages in man/ja/manX (actual behaviour). > What I mean is that if one specify -t latin1, one gets a decent result, > nothing > more. There is a problem with -t latin1, as the `?' character appears as > something unexpected. But to my knowledge, nobody hacked groff for supporting > -t koi8-r (or anything similar). This is another big source of trouble: it looks like some locales gets good results using some setting _because_ they use some other tool hacked to do this. It's like fixing a bug introducing another bug in a different place which tries to put thing back in place. fab, wondering to ask: "is sgml (docbook) able to render your language/charset on your actual linux screen?" -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E | [EMAIL PROTECTED] gsm: +358 (0)40 707 2468
